TRAGEDY AT MANGATOKI
YOUNG FARMER FOUND DEAD. SHOTGUN ALONGSIDE BODY. A farmer. Harold Nelson Leslie, aged 32, of Lower Dutliie Road, Mangatoki, was found dead on Saturday afternoon in a manure shed on the farm with a shot-gun beside the body. He was last seen alive about 11 a.in., and when his farm assistant, Mr. Hodge, went to get in the cows for the afternoon milking jhe noticed the shed door open and made the discovery. Leslie, who was single, had apparently been depressed and worried, hut as far as is known there was no financial cause for this. An inquest will be held this morning. . - .
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1930, Page 12
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